Dr Thomas F. Lynch III, Colonel (ret.) joined the INSS after a 28-year career in the active duty U.S. Army, serving in a variety of command and staff positions as an armour/cavalry officer and as a senior level politico-military analyst. Dr Lynch is a member of the U.S. Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and an adjunct professor in the Security Studies Program in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He holds a B.S. from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, a Master’s in Public Administration (MPA) and a Masters (MA) & PhD in International Relations from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University.